By Iliana Vargas (translated by Toshiya Kamei)
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A seahorse poked his bluish snout out of the window.
She asked him if the icy air tasted like plankton and foam.
He soaked his antennae in the coffee she was drinking and drew a cloud of jellyfish on the table.
Electricity in the eyes, she said.
Transparent riddles on your tongue, he said.
She flew after the cloud.
He blew his snout and tattooed in the window a green dream talisman in which Earth gave birth to another planet, and while it was in labor, it guffawed so brutally that with each jolt it expelled lots and lots of humans and other undesirable beings, offering them to the fiery jaws of the universe.
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Iliana Vargas was born in 1978 in Mexico City, where she still lives today. She is the author of the short story collections Joni Munn y otras alteraciones del psicosoma (2012), Magnetofónica (2015), and Habitantes del aire caníbal (2017).
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